Nant Fawr Brews

Each year we see a whole load of Christmas and Winter themed beers hit the shelves in the beer aisles of the mainstream food stores... but how good are they? And which ones that are out this year are worth having in your holiday season stash? Friend of the show and fellow Cardiff beer-lover Tom Baker joins Andy to do a blind taste test on 5 beers that you can currently find in your local supermarkets. This episode could be the difference between you having a great Christmas Ale on the big day, or a

It's a simple but brilliant idea - why not try to assemble a beer brewed in each of the 32 countries playing in the upcoming football World Cup? It's the kind of thing you wonder about doing with your mates down the pub... but Gus Hully has actually done it. He's become a beer celebrity, being interviewed on media outlets around the world. But now it's time for the big one... the Nant Fawr Brews podcast. Gus has great stories to tell. Why the Senegal beer troubled him for so long and required him to

Ransom is my guest this week. Also known as The Revenant Alien (and he explains what he means by that in the episode). Ransom is a fellow podcaster and creative but worried he was not into beer enough to be on the pod. But, as you'll discover during this chat... a) Ransom has a lot more to say about beer than he thought and b) beer acts as a brilliant springboard into a whole world of other topics. We talk everything from IPAs that look like orange juice, to perfectionism, Rage Against The Machine,

Founding a new microbrewery is a dream for many of us beer lovers... so what is it like to actually do it? Zac Fox, COO and Head Brewer of Bad Idea Brewing Co (one of the greatest names for a brewery ever in my opinion) gives a brilliantly honest, passionate and positive account of his experiences. This interview really gets across the special community atmosphere that exists within brewing. There are highs... (Zac explains how brewing gives job satisfaction few other professions can match)...

No-one likes a pod that dies after one episode and this won't be that pod. My planned guest - Sai the poet beer critic - didn't come off (I hope to speak to him another time), but I wanted to get an episode out so, oddly, I am my own guest this week. My interviewer is me, but not me (you'll have to listen to see how that works). We (me) road-test the 'Beer Questionnaire' - 10 questions I can ask anyone to generate some fun beery stories. Question 9 is a particular highlight, for unexpected reasons

The first ever guest on The Nant Fawr Brews podcast is a guy who has visited 120 microbreweries - Micah Ward. Micah joins me from Tennessee to share his passion for beer and tell me some great stories from the many brewing establishments he's visited. Highlights include - the beer that was so good his wife offered $100 for a tiny takeaway growler, one of the best-named breweries I've ever heard of, the 2 most improbable people to find either end of a bar... and Micah's tips on how to find the best

Welcome to the Nant Fawr Brews Podcast. Nant Fawr means "big stream" in Welsh and is an area of Cardiff that gives the name to my own tiny brewery. I'm Andy, I make beer and enjoy talking about it, which is why I've started this "just for fun" podcast. I'll chat about beer, over a beer, to anyone. On the pod I'll be joined by home-brewers, professional brewers, beer critics, beer lovers, anyone who wants to talk beer in any way - all are welcome to this little beer-loving community.